The United States announced $75 million in non-lethal aid for Ukraine on Wednesday and placed sanctions on a handful of Ukrainian separatists, a Russian bank and others after accusing Russian-backed rebels of breaking a European-brokered ceasefire.

• Date: 11.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 11.03.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Warning Greece it had "no time to lose", euro zone ministers agreed technical talks between finance experts from Athens and its international creditors would start on Wednesday with the aim of unlocking further funding.

• Date: 10.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian tanks and heavy military equipment have crossed the Ukrainian border in the last few days in breach of a European-brokered ceasefire agreed on Feb. 12, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday.

• Date: 10.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused European Council President Donald Tusk and Brussels bureaucrats on Tuesday of stirring up tensions between Moscow and the bloc over the crisis in Ukraine.

• Date: 10.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

China's long-awaited international payment system to process cross-border yuan transactions is ready, and may be launched as early as September or October, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

• Date: 09.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 09.03.2015  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

About 750 U.S. Army tanks, fighting vehicles and other pieces of military equipment arrived in Latvia on Monday as a part of a training mission to reassure NATO allies worried about potential Russian aggression due to the Ukraine crisis, the Pentagon said.

• Date: 09.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 09.03.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he ordered officials to start work on taking control of Crimea weeks before a referendum which, the Kremlin has asserted until now, prompted the region's annexation from Ukraine.

• Date: 09.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 09.03.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

China plans to enact specific legislation to fight corruption, the head of the country's parliament said on Sunday, as the government continues its campaign against graft.

• Date: 08.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 08.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/